Earlier in the middle of September, Nemetschek North America quietly (at least for me) launched its latest release of VectorWorks, the 2009 release is most notably one of the major releases in the VectorWorks line, as it debuts the usage of the world-class Parasolid 3D modeling engine from Siemens PLM, which is stated as one of the most advanced modeling engines in the market, it allows VectorWorks to become 4x to 5x speedier in the 3D modeling operations and to become 2x to 3x speedier in rendering the Viewports inside VectorWorks.
Parasolid is used in many 3D packages including MicroStation (from Bentley), SolidWorks (from Dassault), and NX (from Siemens).
Update 29/12/2008: It seems that the integration of Parasolid into VectorWorks is very important, because the VectorWorks core is single-threaded, which makes it a second class citizen in our new multi-core CPUs world, while Parasolid is multi-threaded and benefits from the multi-core technologies in modern CPUs.
This means that VectorWorks has two major components that are multi-threaded, its 3D kernel and its RenderWorks engine; this should give VectorWorks the needed power in 3D modeling and visualization.
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